Comments by silverpie

You only have 15 pieces, so 'at-least-one' implies 'exactly-one.'

On the commentary, a piece with eight bindings is thrice colorbound, not four times (which would mean full coverage requires sixteen). At the fourth order, it is switching (as the Ferz is at the second order and the Knight at the first).

On the prefixes: given the four "basic" (European, Warhead, Ambush, Nonchalant) patterns of capture/non-capture allowed, we have prefixes for those with zero (Ancient), four (Eurofighter), or two (all six ways) powers. Missing are those with three. Proposals:

anti-European (must capture at least once): HUNGRY

anti-Warhead (may not capture twice): DIETING (no second helpings!)

anti-Ambush (if first is passive, second must be too): ELECTRIC ("It has to warm up... so it can kill you" of Wednesday Addams' electric chair)

Anti-Nonchalant (if first is capture, second must be too: ADDICTED (gotta keep killin'...)

"Also, do Dragons block Queens as Alibabariders usually move, or can they block Queens on the squares they leap over (As a semi-leaping Queen)?"

As I read it, Dragons have no influence whatsoever on the squares they leap. For example, a Dragon on d1, controlling the line d3-d5-d7-d9, would not stop an opposing Queen moving a6-h6, crossing at odd distance from the Dragon.

"On one other note, why promote your pawns to Knights rather than Unicorns?"

In order to promote to a Unicorn, you must have lost one of your starting Unicorns.

Possible variant on that: use Q' etc. to indicate the pieces of black's starting army, and the plain letters for white's. That way, each symbol still means the same thing no matter which side it's on.

Or use English symbols QRBN for one color and German symbols DTLS for the other...

The term "royal" in this context specifically means the "capture/mate me to win" property. The term "prince" has been used both for pieces with the King-move but no such property (Tempête sur l'Échiquier comes to mind) and for pieces that serve as a backup royal (Chu Shogi, Tamerlane). Prince is a reasonable term for either, but the clarification is also reasonable.

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Are the new pawns allowed a 2-step first move?

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